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There have been no articles on psychology for a long time, and I decided that it's time to disassemble an interesting psychological aspect that will bring new knowledge into your life and help improve your game. Today we will talk about emotional-volitional regulation. And first, let's clarify what it is.
Emotional-volitional regulation is the process of regulating one's emotions and volitional efforts, which is based on the management of the emotional-volitional sphere of a person.
In turn, the emotional-volitional sphere is a psychological phenomenon that includes our emotions and the will to manage these emotions.
Emotions have already been described many times on the site: 6 negative emotions that affect our lives, 4 steps to overcome destructive emotions.
In short, will is the conscious pursuit of something. Will involves the predominance of effort over something, that is, a person sets a goal and, with the help of volitional effort, achieves it. For example, the player sets a goal to play consciously - and makes every effort to make every step during the game without emotional outbursts, controlling and realizing what and why he is doing. But how to achieve this? Only by developing your emotional-volitional regulation.
1. Stages of development of emotional-volitional regulation
Development of goal-setting and the ability to be aware of one's emotions.
The stage at which there is a conscious and free choice of a goal without limiting oneself, and based on one's own clear wishes. At this stage, the primary motivation is formed, which is supported by positive emotions. For example: I want to overcome my tilt states, as I understand that I go into strong emotional anger and negativity, and because of this I feel insecure about what I am doing. And I want to feel calm and confident.
Mastery of planning for the implementation of volitional action. Training the ability to control your emotions.
Execution of volitional actions depends on speech planning and regulation. Here it is important to reinforce verbally what a person intends to do to achieve his goal. There is a discussion with oneself and (or) with competent people (trainer, psychologist) of possible ways to solve the struggle of motives. Here there is a clash with reality and, most likely, with the not entirely successful first way to achieve the goal.
A person is faced with the fact that his desire is well-founded, and he clearly wants to achieve it, but not everything is so simple. This in itself can also trigger negative emotions. But at this stage, a person learns to regulate (container) their emotions, to experience them based on themselves and others. At this stage, it is important to regularly remind yourself of what certain actions are performed for, to urge yourself to achieve your goal to the end.
Practice
If we consider the process of combating tilt states, then the player takes the first actions to overcome them, actively restrains himself. It often happens that everything seems to work out, but at the end of the session (or some period of time) emotions again overwhelm him like a wave. There is a breakdown, and a person, as it were, devalues all the efforts made to regulate and control himself.
If this stage is not passed, the person is rolled back. For the development of emotional-volitional regulation, it is important to continue trying, learning to track what happened, what influenced your condition, why it was not possible to restrain yourself. You also need to ask yourself the question: "What else can I do in order to overcome the negative state?"Development of control actions in the implementation of their emotions and actions. This is the last, third stage.
After successful completion and consolidation of the second stage, two lines of behavior in regulation are distinguished:
- mastering methods of self-testing;
- development of the need to check and adjust their work.
At this stage, a person has full contact with his emotions, he knows how to experience and live them, and the volitional effort is formed more automatically. In theory, everything looks simple and understandable, but we are all people, and in practice, the formation of regulation is a process that depends on your personal characteristics, which can both help and, conversely, interfere with its formation.
2. Difficulties in the formation of emotional-volitional regulation
Doubts and a low level of self-confidence are a situation when a player needs constant external support for his activities. “Only a successful result will show that I can” is an erroneous judgment that helps to partially disclaim responsibility for what is happening. This difficulty is like a trap, because the outside world does not always approve of our “right” behavior trap.
- Setting goals that are not supported by your desire, but are based on some approved behavior.
Many players want to play consciously, but why they personally do this, they do not understand. This is where different problems arise. Remember: any of your goals should be supported by your personal aspiration and desire, and if you have a problem with this, you need to work on it! This is the basis of your psychological comfort. - Inability to realize and understand one's emotions, lack of a bundle of behavior and emotions.
With many players in consultations, we analyze their behavior when there is no connection with emotions, that is, some people do not even realize that they are going to “ludomaniac” and play completely unconsciously, since before that something unpleasant happened in their lives that they want to displace. - Weak will formation or, on the contrary, pressure on oneself (“I am obliged, and there is no other way”).
In the first case, the person's position is infantile (“I do not decide anything”, “what can I do?”), and in the second – too tense and oppressive, which leads to burnout.
3. What is needed for regulation
First, you need to understand that emotional-volitional regulation is a coordinated interaction of emotional and volitional processes in the situation of overcoming difficulties and obstacles, formed in activity, in social interaction, and realized in them. For successful regulation, a balance of emotional and volitional components of the system is necessary. The situation of imbalance leads to the need to suppress emotional states by volitional effort, when the volitional process begins to act as an opponent in relation to emotional or uncontrolled, destructive behavior for the individual under the influence of emotions.
And for a clearer work of emotional-volitional regulation, it is necessary to understand how your self-regulation system works, I recommend reading the article on the website: Self-regulation is one of the psychological factors of success in poker.
The result of the development of your regulatory system can be a complete restructuring of activities at its optimal level with an understanding and consideration of your personal needs, desires, individual characteristics, values, as well as the orientation of the personality of a particular person. That is, you are clearly aware of your individual characteristics: not only emotions, but also how you plan and carry out your activities. We can say that such a restructuring will make you a different person, of a higher order, standing, as it were, “above” emotional-volitional regulation, which will give tremendous success in those areas where you want to succeed. And if you want to achieve this faster, sign up for a consultation.
